US unions traded bargaining power for collaboration with Fordist production
Evidence
In the United States, for example, the unions won considerable power in the sphere of collective bar gaining in the mass-production industries of the Midwest and North East, preserved some shop-floor control over job specifications, security and promotions, and wielded an important (though never determinant) political power over such matters as social security benefits, the minimum wage, and other facets of social policy. But they acquired and maintained these rights in return for adopting a collaborative stance with respect to Fordist production techniques and cognate corporate strategies to increase productivity. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 798
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Trade unions can be co-opted to contain working-class opposition; Unorganized metalworkers outmilitated a collaborationist union leadership; The American ruling class historically shared a vocation of work with workers — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1126 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Trade unions can be co-opted to contain working-class opposition
#expands(0.82) - Worker accommodation to Fordist labor remained a surface adaptation, not internalized consent
#qualifies(0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 801 - Labor contracts shift subordination toward relative coordination between parties
#expands(0.75) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 6631 - Unorganized metalworkers outmilitated a collaborationist union leadership
#contradicts(0.72) - Cubism fragmented spatial perspective in parallel with Fordist industrial practice
#complicates(0.72) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1693 - The American ruling class historically shared a vocation of work with workers
#complicates(0.70) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1126